Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

With the cockroaches dancing and the mice singing.
♪ Jellicle cats are black and white ♪
♪ Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats ♪
♪ And that's what makes a Gumbie Cat ♪
- Alonzo. - Or James.
Going to the ball?
♪ Then the family will say ♪
A name that's peculiar and more dignified.
♪ He's always ♪
♪ But that's such a fuss to pronounce ♪
♪ Silence ♪
♪ Has begun. ♪
♪ Macavity's a ginger cat ♪
♪ His powers of levitation ♪
♪ With the ways of the mice ♪
♪ Born into nothing ♪
♪ I'd been busy in the luggage van ♪
Right, no, see, that doesn't rhyme.
♪ Ghosts. ♪
♪ All my life a routine, and I'd say ♪
Okay? And yet you embarrass me. You...
♪ "Was there ever a cat so clever as magical ♪
♪ As magical Mr. Mistoffelees?" ♪
♪ A friendly policeman in conversation ♪
Okay? Now, listen.
♪ Which presently fails ♪
I was abandoned.
♪ When I was about on the roof ♪
♪ "Was there ever a cat so clever ♪
♪ Where to lead you ♪
- ♪ And ♪ - ♪ She haunted ♪
♪ Bustopher Jones wears white. ♪
♪ Is torn ♪
♪ Some caviar or Strasbourg pie ♪
Puss in Spats.
You can do it.
Why don't you come inside?
♪ Skeptical cats ♪
♪ So first your memory I'll jog ♪
the reason, I tell you, is always the same.
♪ For I'm the St. James's Street cat ♪
♪ My disobliging ways is a matter of habit ♪
♪ And taking off your hat ♪
You are the Jellicle choice.
Yeah, you've got it. Here we go.
♪ The memory ♪
Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat.
♪ But I'll leap up in your lap in the middle of your sewing ♪
♪ Critical cats ♪
♪ Follow me home ♪
♪ And the Jellicle leader will soon appear ♪
♪ J... ♪
Nah, nah. No more milk.
Do you think he just got neutered?
Ow!
♪ Are you tense when you sense ♪
So, what's your name?
♪ But you find it next week lying out on the lawn ♪
♪ If the drawers are pulled out from the bedroom chest ♪
♪ And the stationmaster's daughters ♪
♪ Memory ♪
♪ Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun ♪
Far, far up in the sky,
♪ Oratorical cats ♪
♪ Their behavior's not good ♪
The next contestant is
♪ This is merely our center of operation ♪
You know...
You know, your work should be on the world stage.
I'm a Magic Cat, you see.
♪ We can run up a wall ♪
♪ And come back to a different Jellicle life ♪
was truly inspirational and scary.
♪ O Cat ♪
♪ For there's nothing I enjoy like a horrible muddle ♪
♪ Three cheers, three cheers, three cheers ♪